Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HANS WERNER HENZE: FIVE SYMPHONIES (2 LPs: Deutsche Grammophon). The modern symphony, says Henze, tends to be either "a replica, an elegy or an echo," and he illustrates the point with his work, which is reminiscent of Stravinsky. The 40-year-old composer's symphonies are nonetheless enjoyable and full of theatrical flair, as might be expected from a man who has written such successful operas as King Stag and Elegy for Young Lovers. Here the first three works, dating from his early 20s, provide atmosphere but no action. The fourth is richer, unwinding in one movement from gentle...
GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Barth. A surrealistic puzzler-or possibly a parable-about goatish activities on a far-out college campus that represents the modern world...
...article on the new medical technology [Oct. 7] left me ill at ease. The description of the various technological innovations reflected the undying faith of modern man in the science he has created and its presumed efficacy for all fields of human endeavor. Yet, as any man of science would attest, there is a vast difference between faith and knowledge. I suggest that some caution be exercised in the evaluation of the potentialities of the "new technologies of medicine...
Provincialism is, of course, an attitude-and attitudes are relative. A man can be provincial in the biggest city or cosmopolitan in the smallest. But provincialism in the old pejorative sense-blindness and insensitivity to all beyond a narrow purview-is practically disappearing before the realities of modern U.S. life. It is hard to be narrow when TV shows yesterday's battles in Viet Nam, when one out of five Americans moves each year, when the small-towner can often afford the same cars for his garage or the same clothes for his wife (Norells or Balenciagas...
...butt of jokes because it seemed to embody that gibing epithet-provincial. The word was both an accusation and an insult, for everyone with a dictionary knew that it means "narrow, limited, insular, unsophisticated" and denotes "exclusive or overwhelming devotion to one's province." The description hardly fits modern Peoria-nor does it apply to the vast areas of the U.S. that once fell under its indictment. The cities and towns of America still maintain the pride of place that has always distinguished them, but it is a pride seen in the context of the larger world rather than...